Sentences with phrase «account for the actions of»

«I will not be held accountable for the alleged comments of another member of the Republican Party any more than I will ask you to account for the actions of [U.S. Rep.] Charlie Rangel,» Turner wrote in a Sept. 27 letter to Anthony Weiner.

Both the offence of «failure to prevent economic crime» and the proposed corporate criminal evasion offence consider the difficulties of holding corporations to account for the actions of individuals working in or for the organisation.

It is impossible to account for actions of the earth (earthquakes, volcanos...) and the Sun... Any predictions that does not include them will miss the mark.

Not exact matches

The company said it's seen a 25 % dip in abuse reports for accounts that were previously disciplined, and 65 % of users who have been disciplined do not repeat their abusive actions.

Stumpf acknowledged that in some the cases employee actions did amount to stealing, but he said most of the accounts did not generate much revenue for the bank.

U.S. law already generally prohibited U.S. financial institutions from engaging in transactions with North Korean institutions, but Treasury's latest actions would impose additional controls, especially the prohibitions on the use of third - country banks» U.S. accounts to process transactions for North Korea.

I asked for an official comment and was told that Facebook staff «reviewed both the Facebook and Instagram accounts and found no record of any action on our part to remove this content.»

Some plan sponsors have been sued for poorly performing portfolios, others for failing to educate participants about the risks of investing, but many observers predict a wave of legal action over the fees — high fees and hidden fees — embedded in the mutual funds that underpin so many retirement accounts.

Like most of the companies caught up in the anti-corruption crackdown, Rémy Cointreau is now taking evasive action to account for the slump.

In its final report in December 2009, Ernst & Young said that Concrete did little in the way of accounting and «took many actions that in the Receiver's view were not for the benefit of the Partnership.»

In particular, business executives are called upon with increasing regularity to account for their actions and their policies, and to justify them to an increasing range of stakeholders.

Taken together with actions on washing machines and solar panels, the proposed move accounts for just 4.1 percent of U.S. imports.

Earlier this year, as part of this effort, we announced technology improvements for detecting fake accounts and a series of actions to reduce misinformation and false news.

In no case, except due to an adjustment to reflect a stock split or other event referred to under «Adjustments» below, and except for any repricing that may be approved by shareholders, will the plan administrator (1) amend an outstanding stock option or stock appreciation right to reduce the exercise price or base price of the award, (2) cancel, exchange, or surrender an outstanding stock option or stock appreciation right in exchange for cash or other awards for the purpose of repricing the award, (3) cancel, exchange, or surrender an outstanding stock option or stock appreciation right in exchange for an option or stock appreciation right with an exercise or base price that is less than the exercise or base price of the original award, or (4) take any other action that is treated as a repricing under U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.

Attorney Jonathan Delshad filed two class - action lawsuits against Wells Fargo in September on behalf of former employees, including one business banker, who say they were fired for refusing to create fake accounts to hit sales quotas.

Since institutional trading accounts for roughly 80 % of the stock market's average daily volume, the price action of stocks and ETFs is typically driven by the actions of the «smart money.»

The Student Action Volunteer Initiative (SAVI) will provide not - for - profit organizations in Calgary up to 12 hours per month of volunteer accounting support from third - and fourth - year accounting students.

Governments, activists, and the media have become adept at holding companies to account for the social consequences of their actions.

Canadians should be concerned not just with the erosion of Parliament's authority, but also ultimately with their own ability to hold the government to account for its actions.

[A] mong the elements to be taken into account for purposes of determining what constitutes an «extraordinary» action, which would normally be outside the apparent authority of senior executives, are the economic magnitude of the action in relation to corporate assets and earnings, the extent of risk involved, the time span of the action's effect, and the cost of reversing the action.

After taking account of capital - raising actions already underway as well as the revenue generated in first quarter 2009, the net need for new capital was $ 75 billion spread across 10 of the 19 institutions.

This means that if you don't take any action to withdraw or transfer that money, the account will renew for the same term length at the market rate at the time of renewal.

Specifically, Defendants made false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company was engaged in predatory lending practices that saddled subprime borrowers and / or those with poor or limited credit histories with high - interest rate debt that they could not repay; (ii) many of the Company's customers were using Qudian - provided loans to repay their existing loans, thereby inflating the Company's revenues and active borrower numbers and increasing the likelihood of defaults; (iii) the Company was providing online loans to college students despite a governmental ban on the practice; (iv) the Company was engaged overly aggressive and improper collection practices; (v) the Company had understated the number of its non-performing loans in the Registration Statement and Prospectus; (vi) because of the Company's improper lending, underwriting and collection practices it was subject to a heightened risk of adverse actions by Chinese regulators; (vii) the Company's largest sales platform and strategic partner, Alipay, and Ant Financial, could unilaterally cap the APR for loans provided by Qudian; (viii) the Company had failed to implement necessary safeguards to protect customer data; (ix) data for nearly one million Company customers had been leaked for sale to the black market, including names, addresses, phone numbers, loan information, accounts and, in some cases, passwords to CHIS, the state - backed higher - education qualification verification institution in China, subjecting the Company to undisclosed risks of penalties and financial and reputational harm; and (x) as a result of the foregoing, Qudian's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.

As far as investing, our plan of action is to continue maxing out retirement accounts and saving the rest for the house in cash.

As far as investing, our plan of action is to continue maxing out retirement accounts, while saving for the house and fulfilling the rest of the buckets we deem necessary to retire early.

However, Silver notes that their current Coinbase class action lawsuit is an offshoot of the Cryptsy one, for it alleges that Coinbase was negligent in account monitoring.

The explanation provided was that as a «result of accounting changes due to the Jobs and Economic Action Plan, public debt charge forecasts from the Federal Budget are no longer a reasonable estimate of cash - basis expenditures for reporting in the Estimates» [5].

-- Equifax acted recklessly; — Equifax ignored best or even good practices of data security; — Equifax's actions have caused me emotional distress; — Equifax's actions will require me to either pay some company money or take my own personal time to be vigilant about not just my own but at least two other credit accounts for years into the future.

I have been watching your videos and decided to study in depth your advanced price action analysis and from just the introduction I feel I am well on the way to consistency I have a tiny account that was eaten up due to lack of know how and I would like to thank you for your generosity in sharing your knowledge.

Finally, this is one piece of advice that is likely to do you well if you've chosen to build a long - term, conservative investment portfolio based upon dollar cost averaging, low - cost ownership methods such as a dividend reinvestment program (also known as a DRIP account), and do not expect to retire or need the funds for ten years or more, the best course of action based upon historical experience may be to go on autopilot.

«Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should «make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,» thus building a wall of separation between Church & State.»

Whatever justification one might offer «can not even begin to account for the savage, inhuman cruelty and ferocious malevolence» of his actions.

We have the written «gospels,» or accounts of Jesus» sayings and actions, because it was increasingly felt necessary to give a setting for the proclamation.

It is this view of things that accounts for the contemporary politicizing of Christian endeavor, with the churches exhausting themselves in trying to tell the world what to do, including issuing directives for social and political action.

Naturally I do not deny that the Holy Spirit may intervene and give direction to our action; but the possibility of the Spirit's intervention is no justification for rushing pell - mell into action, just for the sake of action; for yielding to some emotion, sentiment, visceral reaction, on the plea that «God will turn it to account» or, worse, in the conviction that this visceral reaction is tantamount to a divine commandment or a prophetic insight.

Finally, after a couple dozen chapters of back and forth between Job and his friends, God shows up to give account for His actions... kind of:

If it had been true, the STORY of Noah's ark could have been a highlight and accounted for all of God's incredible actions.

Whitehead insists that this practical assumption of all action, deepened in religious experience, must be accounted for in an adequate cosmology.

Coupled with some of the tools of biblical criticism (such as the criteria of Embarrassment, Double Discontinuity and Multiple Attestation), he seeks to demonstrate the case for the origin of the Johannine tradition in the words and actions of the historical Jesus, as passed on by eyewitness accounts and possibly by John the son of Zebedee himself.

Given his early Marxism as well as the influence of Collingwood and Wittgenstein, it should not be surprising that MacIntyre grew to find in Aristotle's account of the virtues and practical reason an understanding of the conditions necessary for our actions to be intelligible.

Those chapters reflect the arguments MacIntyre had been developing against behaviorist and deterministic accounts of action, as well as his development of Wittgenstein's distinction between description and explanation — all of which is crucial for the constructive account After Virtue gives of practical reason and the virtues.

She held him to account for his actions and his attitude, his patronizing and paternalistic habit of interfering when it suits him.

It would account for the perplexing situation in which a moral agent must intentionally will evil as part of a moral act, or allow some evil to take place through a refusal to take action.

On this novel account, same - sex sex acts were wrong not because they spurn the rational - animal purpose of sex — namely the family — but rather because the desire for these actions allegedly arises from a distasteful psychological disorder.

But if changes in Christian morals are to this extent inevitable, what never changes is that the returning love for God in which faith by its very nature eventuates always has just such properly moral implications and that they always pertain to acting in the situation in a distinctive way — namely, so as to take account of all the interests affected by our action in order to realize these interests as fully as circumstances allow.

It's basically this preoccupation with procedural justice, which goes with a highly individualistic society (we are all individuals competing; the rules have got to be the same for all of us) that accounts for the revolt against affirmative action.

Significantly, the witness of the Church over the centuries has denied the possibility that God is indifferent to what human beings do to themselves and to the life that has been entrusted to them, because every human being must one day account for their actions before their Creator.

Cost savings, combined with what researcher Dr. Jerome Singer documents as the importance of movement and action as an immediate attention - getter, account for much of the pressure for gratuitous violence on the screens in our homes.

This capacity to resonate would account not only for Newton's action at a distance and Sheldrake's morphic resonance; even more it accounts in the observed «one - dimensional» system of language for the well - known phenomena of flash forwards and recapitulations.

«Believing... that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their Legislature should «make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,» thus building a wall of separation between Church and State.»